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8" Natural, Red Quartz Crystals - Morocco
This is a large cluster of natural, red quartz crystals, collected in Tinjedad, Morocco. This cluster is 8x5.2" long, and the crystals display rich red-pink coloring. The coloration is natural and due to iron oxidation both outside, and included within the crystals.
About Quartz
Quartz is the name given to silicon dioxide (SiO2) and is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth's crust. Quartz crystals generally grow in silica-rich environments--usually igneous rocks or hydrothermal environments like geothermal waters--at temperatures between 100°C and 450°C, and usually under very high pressure. In either case, crystals will precipitate as temperatures cool, just as ice gradually forms when water freezes. Quartz veins are formed when open fissures are filled with hot water during the closing stages of mountain formation: these veins can be hundreds of millions of years old.
Quartz is the name given to silicon dioxide (SiO2) and is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth's crust. Quartz crystals generally grow in silica-rich environments--usually igneous rocks or hydrothermal environments like geothermal waters--at temperatures between 100°C and 450°C, and usually under very high pressure. In either case, crystals will precipitate as temperatures cool, just as ice gradually forms when water freezes. Quartz veins are formed when open fissures are filled with hot water during the closing stages of mountain formation: these veins can be hundreds of millions of years old.
SPECIES
Quartz with Iron Oxide Coating
LOCATION
Tinjedad, Morocco
SIZE
Cluster 8x5.2", Longest crystal 2"
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#53411
